For this deliverable we investigated the recovery approach in mental health across four European countries. The recovery approach was chosen as it is an important driver of the social model of disability which was the area that this work package on health focused on. Our analysis covers two parts: First, we examined the role of individuals and organisations (so called actors) over time and identified important milestones (legislation, policies, events, publications); this also covered an analysis of ‘dynamics’ i.e. interactions between actors from different sector, how the recovery approach related to the life cycle of an innovation, and how those dynamics could be analysed in the context of different welfare state regimes (Esping-Anderson’s typology of decommodification and stratification). Next, in a second part, we analysed the characteristics of organisations, which had been identified as driving and implementing the recovery approach in each of the four countries. Characteristics had been linked in the literature to organisation’s ability to innovative (‘hypothesis testing’). We summarized findings based on two parts of the analysis deriving some commonalities and important differences between countries in regards the existence of the recovery approach.